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Curiosity

A car-sized rover lowered on cables to Gale Crater

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NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed in Gale Crater on 5 August 2012 (Pacific time) after a flight of about 36 weeks. It was the largest rover sent to Mars at the time, and it touched down by being lowered on cables from a rocket-powered descent stage, a manoeuvre called the sky crane.
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- Curiosity’s Mars Landing: Sky Crane, Touchdown and First Images
  
  NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed on Mars after a 36-week flight.
  
  Published 6 Aug 2012
- Curiosity’s Mars Landing: Entry, Descent and Sky Crane at JPL
  
  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shares footage of mission control as Curiosity landed on Mars on the evening of Aug.
  
  Published 6 Aug 2012
- Curiosity at 14: Keeping a Mars Rover Running by Remote Control
  
  Curiosity was built for a mission of about two years and has been on Mars for fourteen.
  
  Published 1 Nov 2026
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain (US government work)
Perseverance

Landing in Jezero Crater to look for ancient life

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NASA's Perseverance rover launched on an Atlas V on 30 July 2020 and landed in Jezero Crater, the bed of an ancient lake, on 18 February 2021. It carries a drill that collects rock cores in sample tubes, an instrument that makes oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and the Ingenuity helicopter.
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- Perseverance: Seven Minutes From Mars Atmosphere to Touchdown
  
  NASA/JPL animations show key events in entry, descent and landing for the Perseverance rover, due to land on Mars on February 18, 2021.
  
  Published 22 Dec 2020
- Perseverance: Inside JPL Before the Seven Minutes of Terror
  
  Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober tours NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ahead of the Perseverance landing on Mars, explaining the why, where, how, what and who of the mission.
  
  Published 15 Feb 2021
- Perseverance Landing on Mars: Descent Call-Outs and Real Footage
  
  NASA's official video combines real footage from the rover's entry, descent and landing cameras with mission control call-outs from Perseverance's landing in Jezero Crater on Feb.
  
  Published 22 Feb 2021
- Perseverance Landing Footage: Parachute to Sky Crane Touchdown
  
  NASA released first-of-its-kind footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, showing the final minutes of the descent up to touchdown.
  
  Published 23 Feb 2021
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